Amanda Waite wrote: > > Attached is the draft Arc case for updating Lighttpd in SFW. I felt this > was needed as it covers the following: > > - Obsolescence of spawn-fcgi in the Lighttpd packages
The key question is, is any supported functionality or public interface of spawn-fcgi is changing or going away (location aside)? As noted in the case, the lighttpd package will depend on the spawn-fcgi package, so as far as the user is concerned do they still get all the same functionality when installing lighttpd? > - Addition of OpenLDAP and Lua as imported interfaces See the OpenLDAP thread for comments on importing it from lighttpd. > 2.4 Changes to the configuration file > > At the request of the upstream Lighttpd community this case will remove > the line: > > server.max-workers = 4 > > From the Lighttpd configuration file. Running Lighttpd with multiple > workers is not supported by the upstream community. What about upgrades? Will upgrading previous installation of lighttpd with this future package remove (or ignore) max-workers or will it continue to work as before? If the latter, does that now lead to an unsupported scenario or do you expect to continue supporting it (for upgrading users only)? > The Lighttpd SUNWlighttpd14u package will include a dependency > on the spawn-fcgi package and will provide symbolic links from > the existing locations of the executable and manpage to the > locations delivered by the spawn-fcgi package, i.e.: > > /usr/lighttpd/1.4/bin/spawn-fcgi -> /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi So looks like only the /usr/lighttpd/1.4/bin/spawn-fcgi path is being obsoleted? What will be the future impact on users when the symlink goes away in a future release of lighttpd? Alternatively, does the symlink need to go away? Is there a benefit to continue to carry the symlink indefinitely? Does it make users life easier in the long run or is it itself an oddity (i.e. all Linux users are expecting /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi anyway) in which case it is good to get it on the obsolete road. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
